Natural Fiber Religious Items

This antique French plaster kneeling statue is from a Parisian Church, it features a stunning horse hair plaster sculpture of a female angel figure. The intricate details and exquisite craftsmanship make it a truly unique piece for any collector or art enthusiast. The item measures 100 cm in height, 70 cm in length and 40 cm in width, making it a large and impressive addition to any indoor space. The sculpture has a beautiful patina finish that enhances its antique charm, and the white colour complements any decor. The statue is shaped like a female angel figure and has no pattern, making it a versatile accent for any room. Whether you're an art collector or simply looking for a beautiful piece to display in your home, this stunning antique bas relief...

An Italian straw work basket shaped hand bag from Bologna, a fantastic, typical and rare almoner basket used by Italian religious for charity purposes to collect begging. Decorated all over with intricately patterned straw covered case, a braided straw on an oval wooden structure. The oval wooden lid features a detailed repoussé silver layer decorated with scrolls and vegetal motifs and centered by a green precious stone. Silver hanlde is coated with leather and decorated by applied repoussé silver floaral elements and topped by a precious stone. Red lining inside. Silver elements are marked 800 and are realized by Stefani silvermaker from Bologna in the Mid-20th Century. The attribution to the silversmith Enea and Alessandro Stefani was mademade for similar artworks on the antiques market. Handmade in Italy, in Bologna, Emilia Romagna region, dating back to the first decade of 19th century, this oval shaped, hand-realized lidded almoner with arched handle was once used as hand-bag for begging and can be used nowadays for sewing, weaving or knitting works. Finely repoussé silver flowers are applied on the whole oval body of this straw basket. This basket is wonderful as a decorative object or an unusual storage solution. Bag basket making is an ancient and humble craft, but in the hands of a skilled artisan a simple basket can become a truly beautiful work of art. In good condition, with working lock and key on the lid. In overall good condition, minor signes of wear consistent with use and age, the lid shows a small cracking in the internal wooden cover. see closed up picture. A lovely antique Italian handmade box for collectors. Listed height of 42 cm refers to hanle's height - 26 cm is just the basket height. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago requires a governative license for export called Belle Arti. The shipping may require additional 2-3 handling weeks to require and get the license according to the final destination of the artwork. The historic Stefani silverware was founded in Bologna in the early 1900s by Enea Stefani, who had learned the art of the silversmith at another historic Bolognese reality, the Zanetti workshop. In 1920 Enea Stefani inaugurated his workshop in Via Clavature, which will be the headquarters of the famous company until it definitively closes in 2015. First Enea and his son Alessandro then produce works of the highest quality, sometimes true masterpieces, working the silver with the ancient techniques of chiselling, embossing, engraving, wax casting, enriching their creations with semi-precious stones and high-fire enamels. The great mastery in the workmanship is combined with an aesthetic research and a poetic vein, especially in Alessandro, who succeeds his father in 1974, and who also signs numbered specimens, which lead to the creation of splendid pieces, such as candlesticks, rocaille-style double , cutlery, centrepieces, masgalani-silver basins...

Unique, top quality made and highly decorative antique Gothic chair. If you are looking for rare, stylish and top-quality made antiques to decorate your home, castle or church then this amazing workmanship chair from the 1800s could be perfect for you. We have never seen or sold a chair like this before and after searching the worldwide web and some of the books we have, we still don't know where these chairs were made and used. Mind you, this amazing antique was all hand forged using wrought iron for most of the base, but the armrests including the four stylized Gothic quatrefoil symbols on either side are entirely made of solid bronze. As are the large 'brackets' that clamp the upper and lower part of this chair together. This unique and heavy chair stands as strong and stable as it did when it left the artisan's studio about 170 years ago. Based on the design with the quatrefoil symbols, the 'papalesk' scarlet red fabric and the ecclesiastical looking bronze ornaments on top of every corner of this chair one would think that it must have been made for a church. Maybe it was a ceremonial chair or maybe it was commissioned by the owner of a Gothic castle...

Created in Normandy, France circa 1880, each versatile chair stands on curved legs joined by turned stretchers over a hand woven rush seat, and features a ladder back with flat top r...

Museum quality and condition work of religious art with amazing, hand carved details. This amazingly hand carved wooden wall plaque is not only of...

A charming rustic prie dieu from France with turned legs and back. In a medium dark stain and with rush seats, the back armrest has the initials AA carved in...

Tiered red lacquer offering vessel with rounded lid and interlocking elements. Hsun Gwet, Burma, mid-20th century. Rattan. Offered by Bo Tree Source. Woven rattan provides the stru...